Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

International scientists have uncovered the oldest known phosphatic stromatoporoid sponge, dating back approximately 480 million years to the Early Ordovician, in South China.

Scientists then leaned towards it being a giant fungus, but the classification remained uncertain. A 2007 study even ...

As astronomer Carl Sagan once said, we are "made of star stuff," as this research suggests, we may also be at the mercy of it ...

Could supernovas have triggered ancient mass extinctions on Earth? New research explores how cosmic explosions may have ...

How did Earth's earliest seed plants capture pollen to reproduce? A team of scientists has uncovered new clues by ...